Question

【題目】 Adding to the madness of the 2016 US presidential election is American lawyer（律師） Andrew Basiago. He says he has traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he’s going to become “either president or vice(副) president” between 2016 and 2028. Polling data（民意測評） is obviously useless to this guy.

Basiago’s greatest qualification(條件) to hold office, of course, is his first-hand information of past and future events. Basiago claims to have gone back in time to 1863 and witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg. He’s also been to the future — the year 2054 — so he has an idea of the pitfalls（缺陷） that a president should be avoiding. Having traveled widely in time, Basiago has held conversations with President Bush, President Clinton, and President Obama decades before they were elected to office, telling them in advance of their presidencies. More importantly, he has been to Mars in 1981, which makes for rich experience in foreign relations.

【1】What is Andrew Basiago sure to become between 2016 and 2028?

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【2】What is almost useless to Basiago in his eyes?

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【3】What did Basiago witness when he went back in time to 1863?

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【4】What’s Basiago’s most important advantage to be the president?

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【5】How do you like traveling through time and space?（請自擬一句話作答）

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Either president or vice president.

【2】Polling data.

【3】(He witnessed) Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg.

【4】His first-hand information of past and future events.

【5】Itismaybetheoreticaltrue, butitishardtomakeithappen.

【解析】

本文主要講述了AndrewBasiago，一個美國律師被載入了美國2016年美國大選的史冊，其中有他的一些關(guān)于時空旅行的言論。

【1】根據(jù)文中He says he has traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he’s going to become “either president or vice(副) president” between 2016 and 2028. 他說，他幾乎一生都在穿越時空，非�？隙ㄋ麑⒃�2016年至2028年間成為“總統(tǒng)或副總統(tǒng)”�？芍�，他會成為總統(tǒng)或者副總統(tǒng)，故答案為Either president or vice president。

【2】根據(jù)文中Polling data（民意測評）is obviously useless to this guy. 投票數(shù)據(jù)對這個家伙來說顯然毫無用處。可知，是民意測試沒有用，故答案為Polling data。

【3】根據(jù)文中Basiago claims to have gone back in time to 1863 and witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg. 巴西亞戈聲稱，他追溯到1863年，親眼目睹了亞伯拉罕·林肯在葛底斯堡的演講。可知他目睹了林肯的演講，故答案為He witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg.

【4】根據(jù)文中Basiago’s greatest qualification(條件) to hold office, of course, is his first-hand information of past and future events. 當(dāng)然，巴西亞戈任職的最大資格是他對過去和未來事件的第一手資料。可知是他對過去和未來事件的資料，故答案為His first-hand information of past and future events。

【5】根據(jù)文中He’s also been to the future-the year 2054-so he has an idea of the pitfalls（缺陷） that a president should be avoiding. 他也去過未來——2054年——所以他有一個總統(tǒng)應(yīng)該避免的陷阱�？芍�這也許是理論上的事實(shí)，但很難去實(shí)現(xiàn)。故答案為Itismaybetheoreticaltrue, butitishardtomakeithappen.